Prep & Practice
What is Prep & Practice?
Lesson series
Prep & Practice learning modules provide accessible, engaging opportunities to practice skills and workshop problems of practice to build your DEI competencies and move your organizational equity work from awareness to action.
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Why should I take this course?
The importance of creating more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations is clear. We need to learn how.
As organizations commit to promoting cultures of equity and belonging, leaders across industries are called upon to equip themselves and their teams to follow through on those commitments. Too often, organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work focuses solely on awareness and not on practicing the concrete skills that support more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations.
What's included?
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12 Topic-Specific Modules
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41 Learner Activities
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1 Certification
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14 Video Mini-Lectures
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12 Breath Work Videos
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1 Participant Workbook
Prepare to deepen your equity work
Increasingly, competency in understanding and engaging in organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is an expected part of the job. But too often, organizations do not provide their team members the tools necessary to excel in DEI work. Prep & Practice's Prep modules ground participants in the skills, awareness, and learning stance to optimize the experience and outcomes of organizational equity work.
Practice the skills to make your organization more inclusive, diverse, and equitable.
Close the gap between your ethic and your practice. You and your organization are committed to answering the call for more equity and justice, and now you need to learn how. Each of Prep & Practice's nine Practice modules explore an organizational DEI topic such as Equity Lens, Bias Mitigation, Shared Language, and Social Location, and each module supports participants in developing their own sustainable DEI practice.
Meet the lead instructor
Chris Darby
Chris is passionate about supporting people and organizations to increase their capacity to communicate, cooperate, and lead across difference. With a strategic mind, strong learning stance, and years of facilitation experience, he brings powerful perspectives and practices to his work as an organizational DEI consultant.
Chris began working in diversity education when he was 16, and co-founded his first business the next year—for over two decades, he has facilitated conversations about issues of difference and worked to build and optimize organizational structures. Over that time, he has supported leaders and organizations, and has developed leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion curricula for a diverse range of clients.
Chris studied the African Diaspora and Colonial Americas at Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude with a BA in history in 2009. In 2015, Chris was awarded the Urban Scholar Fellowship to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he earned his MA studying community engagement, peace education, and curriculum development. The following year he was a Scholar in Residence at the MindKind Institute for Mindful Leadership in New York before returning home to the Bay Area.
Chris began working in diversity education when he was 16, and co-founded his first business the next year—for over two decades, he has facilitated conversations about issues of difference and worked to build and optimize organizational structures. Over that time, he has supported leaders and organizations, and has developed leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion curricula for a diverse range of clients.
Chris studied the African Diaspora and Colonial Americas at Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude with a BA in history in 2009. In 2015, Chris was awarded the Urban Scholar Fellowship to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he earned his MA studying community engagement, peace education, and curriculum development. The following year he was a Scholar in Residence at the MindKind Institute for Mindful Leadership in New York before returning home to the Bay Area.
Patrick Jones - Course author
Course Contents
Put your DEI ethic into practice.
Oakland, CA